Fig. 4

Synteny alignment of the maize, rice, sorghum, and Brachypodium genomes, displayed on the circled scaled map as different color bands with maize genome as reference using SyMAP. Synteny blocks between maize and related grasses were detected and represented with color strips between grass genomes. Chromosome numbers are shown next to the color bar. Major syntenic regions from maize chromosome (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, and 10) where syntenic ZmJAZ pairs located were shown in a ZmJAZ1, ZmJAZ3, and ZmJAZ5, b ZmJAZ2 and c ZmJAZ4–1a/1b, and ZmJAZ4–2, respectively. A list of synteny blocks from grass genomes (chromosome number) for ZmJAZ genes was summarized in d